Top Imagination Quotes

We are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

Imagination Definition

(n.) The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.

(n.) The representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy.

(n.) The power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal.

(n.) A mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

Every invention began as an imagination.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time...

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.

Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.